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2002-08-09 15:02:33
Amizadai: Don't know if you're still reading this or not, but you could actually buy a switchbox that will allow you to use one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse but two computers.
I have one at home. I don't know how much they cost, but I have an old serial-port style one, and they make new fangled USB based ones, too.
No more switchy the pluggy. Just hit the button. :) - 2002-08-02 23:19:29 Kyburg, I need your snail mail addy (I lost it. All is explained in the email I sent to your earthlink account). Hope you're checking it.
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Matrix Reloaded
2002-07-30 15:50:13
MC: (why is it that I'm pretty much only using this journal to reply to you now?), your Matrix rewrite is spot on. However, I'd imagine that an idea as complex (and spot-on) as that would have skyrocketed over the heads of the viewers.
It was hard enough for me to convince my friends to patiently sit through the first 45 minutes of the film so that they could get to the "good stuff" (action sequences). The story was so "out there" to them as it is that they didn't have the patience to sit through long expositions that attempted to spell it out for them. Trying to grasp real-time hacking through the subconscious would have been painstaking to get the average audience to catch.
I've got the Matrix art book (the one with the complete storyboards and the unedited script). The ending speech Neo originally gave (about freeing everyone from their prison) was much more elegant and enlightened. But it was re-written when nearly *ALL* of the test audience left the theater asking what a "chrysalis" was. Indeed, they would not have gotten subconscious neural hacking if they don't understand/comprehend the pupal stage of a butterfly and how it applies as a metaphor to human consciousness. -
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap.
2002-07-17 00:31:03
MC: Here's why I pay for Dental Insurance :) (you mentioned you were wondering, and that you hadn't heard from me in awhile, so here it is...) It's $10/month, and my Dentist doesn't even take the insurance I have. But, it's only $120/year (covering both myself and my wife), and including the two cleanings we have done a year, that bill comes out (surprisingly) to $210. Now, if something like a root canal should happen (and it has), those puppies can run you something like $450 or more, depending on what needs to be done. All I have to do is make sure that the Orthadontic Maxfilliofacial Surgeon (or whatever they're called these days) that's going to do the work takes our insurance (and if he doesn't, I won't use him), and I only need make a co-pay of $10. So I basically pay the same amount as you just did for the entire year, and the guarantee that I won't get my wallet gutted :) If I were smart (which I'm certafiably not), I'd even change my Dentist over to someone who was on our plan, thereby saving $90/year. But I like our Dentist because he doesn't pull our chains and tell us we need to come in for 2 cleanings a year. In fact, sometimes I dont' see him for at *least* a year (which is bad). Every time, he says I take great care of my teeth and I don't need to see him for another year, unlike the last bastard I went to who had his assistant (with the emphasis here on *ass*istant) pick at my teeth with the hook 'till my gums bled (actually hooked them with the hook and pulled 'till the flesh tore), and then had the set to tell me that I wasn't taking care of my gums well enough. But that's an entirely *different* story :)
- 2002-07-16 14:19:19 MC, just a quick note to let you know I'm still reading.
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